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Selected Verse: Psalms 50:9 - Basic English
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 50:9 |
Basic English |
I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; |
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King James |
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I will take no bullock out of thy house - Bullocks were offered regularly in the Hebrew service and sacrifice Exo 29:11, Exo 29:36; Lev 4:4; Kg1 18:23, Kg1 18:33; and it is with reference to this that the language is used here. In obedience to the law it was right and proper to offer such sacrifices; and the design here is not to express disapprobation of these offerings in themselves considered. On this subject - on the external compliance with the law in this respect - God says Psa 50:8 that he had no cause to complain against them. It was only with respect to the design and the spirit with which they did this, that the language in this verse and the following verses is used. The idea which it is the purpose of these verses to suggest is, that God did not "need" such offerings; that they were not to be made "as if" he needed them; and that if he needed such he was not "dependent" on them, for all the beasts of the earth and all the fowls of the mountains were his, and could be taken for that purpose; and that if he took what was claimed to be theirs - the bullocks and the goats - he did not wrong them, for all were his, and he claimed only his own.
Nor he-goats out of thy folds - Goats were also offered in sacrifice. Lev 3:12; Lev 4:24; Lev 10:16 : Num 15:27. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Bullock - Be not so foolish, as to imagine that thou dost lay any obligations upon me by thy sacrifices. |
27 And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.
16 And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,
24 And he is to put his hand on the head of the goat and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering before the Lord: it is a sin-offering.
12 And if his offering is a goat, then let it be placed before the Lord,
8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
33 And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time;
23 Now, let them give us two oxen; and let them take one for themselves, and have it cut up, and put it on the wood, but put no fire under it; I will get the other ox ready, and put it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
4 And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord.
36 Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.
11 And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.